Arnold Elzey

Arnold Elzey Jones Jr. (18 December 1816-21 February 1871) was a Confederate States Army Major-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Arnold Elzey Jones Jr. was born in Somerset County, Maryland in 1816, and he graduated from West Point in 1837 and served in the Second Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the Third Seminole War. When the American Civil War broke out, he surrendered the Augusta Arsenal to the Confederate States Army and became colonel of the newly-formed 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA. He took command of Edward Kirby Smith's brigade after Smith was wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, later commanding a brigade under Richard S. Ewell during the 1862 Valley Campaign. On 4 December 1862, he was promoted to Major-General, and he came to serve as chief of artillery for the Army of Tennessee. He was paroled in Washington, George in May 1865, and he retired to a farm in Maryland after the war, dying in 1871.